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Subj:	HOLIDAYS OF NOV 19 - 25
HERE ARE THE HOLIDAYS OF NOVEMBER 19 - 25:
SUN NOV 19:Discovery of Peurto Rico Day
	   Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)
	   Prince of Monaco Holiday
	   Liberation Day (Mali)
	   Rocket and Artillery Forces Day (USSR)
MON NOV 20:Mexican Revolution Anniversary
TUE NOV 21:The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
WED NOV 22:St. Cecilia's Day
	   Repentance Day (West Germany)
THR NOV 23:Thanksgiving
	   Kinro-Kansha-No-Hi (Japan)
FRI NOV 24:Anniversary of the New Regime (Zaire)
SAT NOV 25:Suriname Independence Day
	   St. Catherine
	   Thanksgiving Day (Madagascar)
	   Bosnian State Day
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THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION:
	How much did Weight Watchers founder Jean Nidetch weigh in 1963 when
she came up with the concept that helped her shed pounds and make a fortune?
LAST WEEK'S TRIVIA:
	What is the average age at which America's presidents have taken
office?
	ANSWER:  54
	WINNERS:Matthew McInteer - 53;  Cherie Sullivan - 55
	BEST ANSWER: 34 - Curtis Beasley
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Just east of the town of Watson Lake in Yukon Territory, Canada, is a
collection of signposts called the sign forest.  This unusual highway landmark
originated in 1942 when homesick Alaska Highway workers erected signs bearing
the name of their hometowns and the distances to them.  The practice has been
carried on by tourists.
Tests to determine the source of the apparently human images on the Shroud of
Turin, a length of linen long purported to be the burial cloth of Jesus, have
been inconclusive.  The age of the cloth itself, however, was finally
determined in 1988 when laboratories in different countries subjected fragments
to carbon-14 dating.  All three laboratories concluded that the cloth of the
shroud was made between sometime between A.D. 1260 and 1390.
This Week's Obscure Word:	JINGOISM
Extreme chauvanism or nationalism marked esp. by a belligerent foreign policy.
The celebrated four-color map problem, framed in 1850 and publicized in 1878,
had less to do with cartography than with mathematics.  The question "How many
colors are needed to color any map so that no two regions sharing a common
border will have the same color?" was definitely answered in 1977.  The proof
that four colors are always sufficient occupied 170 pages of text and diagrams
derived from more than 1,000 hours of calculations on a large electronic
computer.
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646 - 1709), shogun of Japan, was known as the "Dog
Shogun."  Born in the year of the Dog and told by a Buddhist monk that he had
been a dog in his previous existence, Tsunayoshi insisted that dogs be
addressed in only honorific terms and decreed the death penalty for anyone who
harmed a dog.  He kept an estimated 50,000 dogs at government expense.
Two million dollars was awarded to the Bank of Portugal in 1930 because
Waterlow & Sons, London printers, ran off an unauthorized 500,000 five-hundred
Escudo notes in 1925.  The man behind the scheme at Waterlow did 16 years for
the crime.
Matched against Christy Williams in Hot Springs, South Dakota, on December 26,
1902, in a boxing match, Oscar Nelson was floored 5 times.  However, Christy
hit the canvas 42 times and lost the fight.
Included with this message will be an email message that a local Fresno,
California, columnist sent to Newt Gingrich, that is quite humorous.
(submitted by David Proctor)
						Slama sidhi barakas,
						Brent